Tell Congress to Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/10/13) — CAIR today joins the thousands of community, labor, immigration, and human rights activists rallying across the country and at the nation’s capital to demand that Congress pass commonsense immigration reform. CAIR is asking all Americans who believe that comprehensive immigration reform is long overdue to urge their U.S. senators and representatives […]
Action: Contact Senators to Urge Support for Immigration Reform
Note: The click-and-send letter for this alert is outdated and has been deactivated. Please go to our updated alert to take action for immigration reform! (This alert remains published for archive purposes) Action Alert: #687: Action: Contact Senators to Urge Support for Immigration Reform (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/29/13) – CAIR today welcomed the announcement of […]
Help Reform Immigration Laws
Legislative Fact Sheet (January 1, 2013) The Issue Immigration reform is long overdue and needs to be implemented in a way that is fair, upholds the constitutional values of due process and equality, and ensures human rights. In the absence of comprehensive federal immigration reform, many states have adopted punitive enforcement of immigration laws that […]
CAIR-OH: Group: Anti-Immigration Stance Fuels Hate
Activists for immigrants lashed out at Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones and state Rep. Courtney Combs on Thursday, saying the duo’s push to get an anti-immigration law passed in Ohio fuels hatred and crimes against Hispanics.Officials with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Ohio said “it is not a coincidence” that five Hispanic […]
CAIR-FL: Potential Immigration Law Divides Public, Law Enforcement
Neil Lewis’ cramped immigration law office reverberates from the ring of yet another telephone call. Each anxious voice on the other end poses the same question. “Is that going to come here?” Lewis said, echoing his clients’ apprehensive queries. Across the state, Floridians are paying close attention as state lawmakers begin to craft a tough, […]
Video: Jailed Texas Imam Speaks from Immigration Prison
We look at the case of Sheikh Zoubir Bouchikhi, who has been held without bail at a private immigration prison in Houston for the past four months. Bouchikhi, a native of Algeria, has lived in the United States for the past eleven years and has four children, three of them American-born citizens. In 2007, he […]
FL: Megahed Jurors Upset by Immigration Charges
Five of the federal jurors who acquitted Youssef Megahed of explosives charges are speaking out against U.S. immigration officials’ decision to arrest him just four days after the verdict. “It may be ‘legal,’ but that doesn’t make it right,” foreman Gary Meringer said in a statement signed by him and three other jurors. “It strikes […]
CAIR-Sacramento Holds Immigration Forum with DHS Rep
(SACRAMENTO, CA, 7/28/2008) – The Sacramento Valley office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) recently held a public forum featuring Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) Regional Lead for Community Outreach Janna Evans and CAIR-SV Executive Committee Member Imran H. Khan, Esq.More than 60 community members attended the forum, which was […]
Latino, Muslim Leaders Warn about Immigration Laws
A Latino pastor and a local Muslim leader presented together a workshop about the consequences the enforcement of current immigration laws are having on American citizens and legal residents of the two communities these two leaders represent. During an inter-faith service organized by We Believe COLORADO on Thursday, June 12, 2008, Pastor Fidel “Butch” Montoya, […]
NJ: Rallies Planned for Imam’s Immigration Hearing
Proponents of a Paterson Imam who is facing deportation hope thousands of his supporters will attend three days of rallies planned around his immigration case. Imam Mohammad Qatanani, head of the Paterson-based Islamic Center of Passaic County, is scheduled to face a U.S. immigration judge in Newark on Thursday. Organizers say at least 18 buses […]